That's redundant. Morphometrics _is_ measuring. It literally means "shape and size measuring." 

Morphometrics as a tool isn't entirely redundant as it can be used at almost no expense by amateur beekeepers to give a reasonably accurate assessment of racial characteristics of their bees.  Its is not, of course as accurate as genetic analysis but the tools to do that are not readily available.

Morphometrics was the tool used to identify Apis mellifera mellifera, the northern European bee, and distinguish it from Am ligustica, carnica and all the rest.  The simplest way was to put wing veins on a glass slide, project the image onto a screen and measure lengths and angles, plot on a graph and check the book. Nowadays a computer can do it for you if you have an up to date scanner (which I don't!).

I wonder whether there are diagrams and measurements for the Africanised bees, Am scutellata?  This would enable beekeepers in America to decide whether their bees are stroppy because of their race rather than weather/disturbance etc.

Chris

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